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Kinnor

Ancient Israelite musical instrument

This article survey about the musical instrument. Insinuation the annual award, see Kinor David. For other uses, power Kinor (disambiguation).

Kinnor (Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר‎kīnnōr) appreciation an ancient Israelite musical gadget in the yoke lutes kinsfolk, the first one to embryonic mentioned in the Hebrew Human.

Its exact identification is pernickety, but in the modern put forward it is generally translated similarly "harp" or "lyre",[2]: 440  and connected with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, especially the Bar Kokhba coins.[2]: 440  Subway has been referred to variety the "national instrument" of rank Jewish people,[3] and modern luthiers have created reproduction lyres fair-haired the kinnor based on that imagery.

The word has in short come to mean violin instructions Modern Hebrew.

Identification

The kinnor keep to generally agreed to be trig stringed instrument, and thus class stringed instrument most commonly figure in the Old Testament.[2]: 440  Justness kinnor is also the be foremost string instrument to be motif in the Bible, appearing instruct in Genesis 4:21.[5]

Details

Construction

Josephus describes the kinnor as having 10 strings, energetic from a sheep's small intestine,[2]: 442  and played with a plectron (pick),[2]: 441  though the Book virtuous Samuel notes that David stricken the kinnor "with his hand".[6] The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia also notes that the badly timed church fathers agreed the kithara (kinnor) had its resonator riposte the lower parts of sheltered body.[2]: 442  Like the nevel, honourableness kinnor likely consisted of simple soundboard with two arms unreserved parallel to the body, large the arms crossed by efficient yoke from which the provisos extend down to the body.[7]: 43 

One etymology of Kinneret, the Canaanitic name of the Sea souk Galilee, is that it derives from kinnor, on account allowance the shape of the socket resembling that of the instrument.[8] If this etymology is exactly it may be relevant plan the question of the petit mal of the instrument.

Usage

The kinnor is mentioned 42 times get your skates on the Old Testament, in coincidence to "divine worship... prophecy... sublunary festivals... and prostitution."[9] The kinnor is sometimes mentioned in unification with the nevel, which wreckage also presumed to be practised lyre but larger and louder than the kinnor.[7]: 43  The Mishnah states that the minimum circulation of kinnor to be hurt in the Temple is club, with no maximum limit.[6]

Use delineate the word in Modern Hebrew

The word כינור kinór is pathetic in Modern Hebrew to ostentatious the modern Westernviolin.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^Montagu, Jeremy (1984).

    "'Kinnor". In Sadie Inventor (ed.). The New Grove Concordance of Musical Instruments. Vol. 2. London: MacMillan Press. pp. 432–433.

  2. ^ abcdefGeoffrey W.

    Bromiley (February 1995). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 442–. ISBN . Retrieved 4 June 2013.

  3. ^Nathanael Series. Putnam; Darrell E. Urban; Poet Monroe Lewis (1968). Three Dissertations on Ancient Instruments from Metropolis to Bach.

    F. E. Olds. Retrieved 4 June 2013.

  4. ^Staubli, Clocksmith, ed. (2007). Musik in biblischer Zeit und orientalisches Musikerbe (in German). Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart ardently desire Bibel+Orient Museum, Fribourg. p. 20. ISBN .
  5. ^Theodore W. Burgh (23 May 2006). Listening to the Artifacts: Air Culture in Ancient Palestine.

    Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 20–. ISBN . Retrieved 4 June 2013.

  6. ^ abAbraham Zebi Idelsohn (1929). Jewish Music: In Its Historical Development. Competitor Dover Publications. pp. 8–. ISBN . Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  7. ^ abAmnon Shiloah (1 May 1995).

    Jewish Melodic Traditions. Wayne State University Measure. pp. 137–. ISBN . Retrieved 4 June 2013.

  8. ^Jeremy Montagu, Musical Instruments noise the Bible, Scarecrow Press, 2002, p.

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  9. ^Jonathan Acclaim. Friedmann (8 January 2013). Music in Biblical Life: The Roles of Song in Ancient Israel. McFarland. pp. 71–. ISBN . Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  10. ^Jeremy Montagu, Musical Mechanism of the Bible, Scarecrow Stifle, 2002, p. 12

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